The website revamp is taking shape. I still need to remove / redo some of the cheesy sales-sounding text (no idea how that got there), but we’re getting there.

Over the past few weeks a number of potential clients and partners have asked me how they can see examples of the work we have done. Apparently the answer was “with difficulty”. It does help in business if you actually show people what you have done (as opposed to what you say you can do), so I’ve rectified this by building a portfolio page which will showcase our work.

There’s still a lot to be done, but we’re making progress. At the moment we’ve only added four projects (although they were all fairly large, “high-profile” I suppose, and technically quite diverse pieces of work). I still want to add some “behind the scenes” info to each project on how we designed and built them, and any other interesting info that I think might be of interest. And then we’ll add more projects to the portfolio over the coming days. Finding screenshots for things we built years ago is proving to be a bit of a challenge :).

On a personal note it’s actually great to be putting this content together. It feels like it should be documented somewhere. And it does add value in that at least we’re spreading the word about what we’ve actually delivered. I’m far more interested in what people have actually done than what they say they can do, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that thinking.

Anyway, more to come. And at least now we have two blog posts (since I deleted all of the previous ones last week).

Chat soon,

Gary.

I’ve been fairly frustrated by our site for some time now.

Our last blog post was from 2014! We had information on our Nedbank Money Manager product which was discontinued two years ago. We still had links to our Clarion code libraries which we stopped developing a decade ago! Good grief. How did that happen?

Being busy.

It came up again in a conversation earlier today when someone told me that they had gone to our website to see what we had been working on the past two years, but our website was exactly the same as the last time they visited two years ago. Point taken. Time to sort it out.

So I logged in, updated the WordPress core and plugins, broke a lot, fixed a lot, and then deleted a lot.

We’ve gone from over 400 pages down to five. Six if you include this blog post. I deleted all of the old blog posts and decided to start fresh.

We have been incredibly busy these past few years. Too busy to keep the website up to date apparently. We’ll do better going forward. My first goal will be to redo the Home / About Us / What We Do pages – those feel not only outdated, but quite cheesy if I’m honest. Sorry about that :). We’ll come up with something better soon.

And then I’m also going to blog more. Even just something short and to the point like this.

Thanks for your time and interest in reading this.

Here we go…